captivity

When Z?lie is captured and taken away from her homeland, she must face her captor, King Baldyr, and find allies to stop the impending catastrophe threatening her people at the hands of the Skulls.

"Coa, who was born feral in the North Transatlantic wilds, has just been captured. Now, Coa is subject to public humiliation and execution in a gruesome spectacle known as The Great Hunt. If participants die in the Great Hunt their entire family will be executed--in front of everyone. The nationalist regime, known as the Allied Force, will not rest until all foreigners are exterminated. Coa's best hope of survival might be Princess Ife--born of privilege, but newly married into the authoritarian lineage. Her riskier choice is an alliance with a gorgeous, cunning fellow participant, marked as a traitor to his militarized nation. Coa entangles herself with the captivating young man, but soon finds he could be her ultimate downfall"--Amazon.

A semi-autobiographical account of the author's experiences in the Valley of the Typees on the island of Nuku Hiva, told through the character of Tommo, a sailor who jumps ship and lives for months among the valley's happy people.

"Waking up in a mysterious enclosed space with no memory of their identities, a group of adults uncovers evidence of a long-past war and the horrifying realities of their confinement"--OCLC.

At last, our heroes, Alive and Alight, get to the bottom of the confounding mystery of their own existence. At the same time, they must contend with the fact that if they can't defend the planet their bodies were engineered to inhabit, they'll be forced to flee--in hopes that some corner of the far-flung universe will prove hospitable.

Five British teenagers stage the prank to top all pranks by disappearing into a small, inescapable cellar underneath their school for three days-- but it seems the joke is on them when Martyn, the master schemer behind the ruse, does not show up to let them out.

In a dystopian future, most of the population is infected with a plague, expect those who live outside the Safe Land's city walls, but when a mutation in the plague sends city enforcers looking for the uninfected, Levi's village is raided and Levi's fianc?e is taking captive, then Levi launches a war against the city in an attempt to free her before it's too late.